O4 
At Holyrood Houfe, Charles Hamilton, 
efg. great grandfon to Charles I, 
At Caithnefs,, James Sinclair, efq. of 
Harpfdale, uncle to Sir John Sinclair, bart. 
of Ulbfter. 
At Forfar, Mrs. Mary Bower, wife of John 
Ritchie, efq. prefent provoft there. 
At Powder Hall, near Edinburgh, Sir 
ames Hunter Blair, bart. joint king’s 
printer in Scotland. 
At Gargunnock, Colonel James Eiding- 
ton. 
IRELAND, 
Died.] At Dublin, on the fame day, Col. 
Ravenfcroft and Captain Manfell, both of 
the Carmarthenfhire Militia. 
‘At the Royal Hofpital, near Dublin, aged 
78, Captain Burten.—He was one of the few 
remaining veterans who bled at the battle of 
Dittingen, on which memorable day he re- 
Treland—Deaths Abroad, Ge. 
{Augué 1, 
Mr, Spillard, the pedeftrian traveller, whe 
had traverfed great part of the continent of 
America. 
DEATHS &BROAD. 
At Berlin, the Dowager Landgiavine of 
Heife Caffell, a princefs of Pruffia, of the 
houfe of Brandenburgh-Schwedt, and fifter 
to her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Ferdi- 
nanda. 
At Hamburgh, the Duc d’Aguillon, a pa- 
triotic French emigrant nobleman, in the 
48th year of his age. He fell a vidtim to 
the gout, juft at the moment when he and his 
friends had had the unjuft profcription enforced 
again them removed by the mild admini- 
ftration of Bonaparte. 
Of want, at Nice, the artift Corbiun, maf- 
ter of the celebrated Viotti. 
Lately inthe Weft Indies, admiral Vandeput; 
he was an officer of diftinguifhed merit, and 
ceived feven fhots. had the chief command on the Halifax ftation. 


MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
AT lenoth, after five years examination, and difcuflion, an Aét of Parliament has been 
5 patied for the eftablifhment of the Lezdon Dock Company, tor the formation of Wet Docks 
and other works at Wapping, which are to be executed according to the plan originally 
propofed, except that the canal from Blackwall has been relinquithed, as having become 
unneceflary in confequerce of the canal now forming through the Ile of Dogs. To the 
individuals, who have promoted the views of the London Dock Company, the public are 
zsuch indebted, as to the faéts which they have brought forward, and the attention that has 
been thereby excited towards a fubject of fo much importance to the mercantile intereft, 
may be chiefly afcribed all the improvements that are at prefent begun or projeéted. The 
London Docks are intended to be chiefly appropriated to the reception of veffels in the rice, 
tobacco, wine, and brandy trades ; and tor more effectually accomplifhing their undertaking, 
the Company have lately augmented their capital {tock to £.1,000,000. 
Nothing can more ftrongly thew the neceflity that exifted of extending and improving the 
accommodations of the port of London than the following ftatement of the increafe of the thips 
and vefiels employed in the trade of the river Thames inthe courfe of the 18th century. 
Increafe of Veffels, Increate of Tonnage. - 

Veffels in the coafting trade - - 4615 - - 997,550 
Britith vefels in foreign trade = - 587 - - 250,552 
Foreign veliels in ditto - - 1547 - - 149,861 
Total increafe in a century - - - 6547 - =.» 1,327,763 
This extenfive navigation employs the vaft number of 13,144 fhips and veflels in the 
foreign, colonial, and coafting trade (including their repeated voyages ) befides 2288 lighters, 
barges, and punts, employed in the trade of the river Lea, and the upper and lower Thames. 
If to thefe are added the &ationary craft, confiting of 3536 barges, lighters, and punts, ufed 
in the ladiag and dilcharging of veffels, together with 83 boats, floops, cutters, and hoys, 
3000 watermen’s wherries, 155 bumboats, and i94 peterboats, the agregate number (ex- 
clufive of fhips of war, tran{ports, and navy, victualiing, and ordnance hoys) will be found 
to amount to 22,500 trading fhips and veilels of various fizes and dimenfiens; either fre- 
quenting the river im the courte of the year, or remaining ftationary within the limits of 
the port. The total value of the exports ‘and imports is upwards of £.67,000,000 ; and fo 
greatly is this property expofed to depredation, that the amount of the plunder thereon 18 
eftimated at more than £.500,000 per annum. To check as far as poffible this enormous 
piliage, which, though brought into a regular fyftem, and, in fome degree, fanctioned by 
cuftom, is fo injurious to the merchants, to the public revenue, and to the morals of the 
labouring claffes, a variety of regulations have been propofed in a treatife on the Commerce 
and Police of the River fhames, by Mr. Colquhoun ; the chief meafures now propofed are 
an extenfion of the Marine Police Inftitution, complete protection by the aid of civil guards 
difciplined as a regular body, and to give extenfion to the legal powers and penalties of the 
bumboat act. 
We have frequently had occafion to notice the increafing commerce of different out-ports, © 
of which Berwick-xpon-Tweed affords an additional inftance. About fifty years fince, two 
well-veffels of fifty tons each were found {uificient to carry on the whole of the coalting- 
trade 
